I have an older Gateway computer, P3 1Ghz, 512 ram (maxed), that had an old 32mg Nvidia 400x that ran fine. Just put a Jaton 3Dforce FX5700LE-256 DDR AGP 4x/8x. Not long after putting it in, the main screen turned hard red. A game (freelancer - Microsoft ) also has done it 3 times now in game. A grey box now states when loading it, the card is not recognized, do you want to continue. The red is removed only by re-starting the comp. Lastly, it takes the comp forever to start now. Is this a junk card? Any help apprciated.

did you remove the previous vid card drivers before installing the new one and also did you update to the latest motherboard drivers?

Thanks for the help. I did not un-install the old one at first (oops), but i then went and deleted all the nvidia stuff in add/remove. I have done this twice now - using the drivers provided on the disk, and using the ones from nvidia's page. It also crashes the vid card now, leaving the comp on, but no screen (it acts like the comp is off -diagnostic message). No improvements yet. Any other suggestions? Need my tuning hammer next.....